../n!ck

"For the last 10 years new media artist, educator, and organizer Nick Briz produced an urgent and electrifying body of work that uses the tools of our digital age to illuminate its promises and perils. Taking shape through software, websites, video essays, and lecture series, Briz has examined the political and environmental implications of Apple’s culture of continuous upgrades, made an early case against Facebook and a series of computer scripts to help users quit it, and mapped the invisible geography of Wi-Fi networks." —Amy Beste "[his] work is bold [...] calculated and very clever [it] use[s] the contemporary capitalist system to reveal the inherent problems and obstructions to freedoms that those very systems create and protect." —Tara Judah "Although Briz’s works are critical of many contemporary tech and internet-based companies and their practices, he doesn't cross the line into digital nihilism—instead, he offers practical solutions for caring for oneself online" —Christy L

../n!ck artist educator organizer technologist

related reading

• A year of new avenuesrobinsloan.com
• A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Onlinehenry.codes
• Internet as Practicedanhunt.substack.com
• There is an internet that is mine & I would like you to live in it with me – Chia's Blogchias.blog
• The internet is already over - by Sam Krisssamkriss.substack.com
• What Is To Be Done?cjthex.com
• What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
• Bryan Lehrerbryanlehrer.com
• Tech Strikes Back - The New Atlantisthenewatlantis.com
• The Afterlives of Computer Artemptysetmag.com
• you can just do things (ft. anson & hudzah)jasmi.news
• Marc Barnes on Tech — NEWPOLITYnewpolity.com